Ikue Mori
Her first musical experience was as the drummer for seminal no wave band DNA, which also featured East Village musician Arto Lindsay.Though she had little prior musical experience (and had never played drums), Mori quickly developed a distinctive style: One critic describes her as "a tight, tireless master of shifting asymmetrical rhythm",[4] while Lester Bangs wrote that she "cuts Sunny Murray in my book."[6] Critic Adam Strohm writes that she "founded a new world for the instrument, taking it far beyond backing rhythms and robotic fills.Beyond her solo recordings, she has recorded or performed with Dave Douglas, Butch Morris, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and many others, including as Hemophiliac, a trio with John Zorn and singer Mike Patton, as well as being a member of Zorn's Electric Masada.[8] With Lotte Anker & Sylvie Courvoisier With Mephista (Mori, Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra) With Cyro Baptista With Dave Douglas With Erik Friedlander With Fred Frith and Ensemble Modern With Maybe Monday With Rova::Orchestrova With Kim Gordon and DJ Olive With George Spanos With John Zorn With Medicine Singers